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Vax Attacks: Foreign aid is not popular politically, so it isn’t one of the big talking points among the opposition. But that doesn’t mean America’s ruthless cuts (to save what amounts to little more than a budgeting rounding error) are not a big story. NYT (Gift Article): U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries. “The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.”

+ Friendly Ghost Ruling: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulations on ‘ghost guns,’ mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home – handing gun control groups a rare win at the conservative high court.”

+ Inside Job: This one was inevitable. Senate Majority Leader Pushes Estate Tax Repeal in GOP Bill Talks.

+ Tariffs, Ands, and Buts: The market wants clarity on tariffs. Every day, the market gets wildly different signals from the White House. Those signals drive the market to soar or fall dramatically. Will anyone be surprised if we learn that there are Trump cronies who know about the signals in advance and are trading accordingly?

+ That’s Nuts: DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show.

+ Curry Sauce: “Stephen Curry teams up with Michelle Obama to launch sports drink.” (The tagline just writes itself: When they go low, we jump high.)